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From: houpt@husc8.HARVARD.EDU (Thomas Houpt)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Does Data General under AOS/VS use TCP/IP?
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Date: 14 Nov 89 06:05:32 GMT
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A friend of mine is trying to network a Data General computer
running AOS/VS to Macintoshes with ethernet. The DG is controlling
a Magnetic Resonance Imgaing system for brain scans, and is already
networked to its "peripherals" (an MRI scanner, a vector processor, and
a display terminal) via an ehternet cluster box. The cluster box
has a total of 9 ports, of which only 3 are being used. He wants to
plug a transceiver box into one of the unused ports, and run coax
to a Mac ethernet card so he can downloadscanned image files for display.
The question is, does the DG use TCP-IP on its ethernet network,
or is it available (along with ftp for the file transfer) for the
DG operating system. Once we know its possible to get TCP-IP/FTP
running, we know what to do. But we are sufficiently unfamiliar with the
DG operating system not to know if this is trivial or impossible.

I noticed a few replies posted here titled "Re Data General" , but
I missed the beginng of the exchange. So I apologize if I am asking
a recently asked question over again.

Thanks in advance.